The humor of The Far Side came from converting the familiar into the strange and surreal; the more universal an experience, the more artist Gary Larson could play on his readers' expectations to deliver an unexpected and uproarious joke, and there were few subjects he lampooned that were more widely recognizable than the trials and tribulations of growing up.

The Far Side featured a number of cartoons about kids and childhood. Just like any set of Far Side comics, some are laugh-out-loud funny, while others rank among Larson's most endlessly perplexing punchlines.

And of course, as with anything on The Far Side, being a kid could be equal parts wondrous and terrifying; at their best, The Far Side's kid comics offer readers a nostalgic, childlike feeling of learning to navigate life by throwing them in the deep end of an utterly bewildering experience.

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